1 00:00:15,05 --> 00:00:21,98 Ha it's Amanda cupcake with baking with Amanda cupcake and today 2 00:00:22,18 --> 00:00:28,48 we're going to make Mountain Dew and the reader those cake pops Yes they do exist 3 00:00:28,57 --> 00:00:31,88 is actually a cake. We start with 4 00:00:31,89 --> 00:00:38,47 a cake made out of Mountain Dew and other ingredients and then we sprinkle the cake 5 00:00:38,48 --> 00:00:44,25 pops with the reader knows. How fabulous is that that's every kid's dream come true 6 00:00:44,62 --> 00:00:49,28 mon Dieu and the reader as they go together is the perfect junk food combination so 7 00:00:49,29 --> 00:00:54,13 the ingredients that you can use that home and I'm going to make this recipe really 8 00:00:54,14 --> 00:00:56,79 easy for you to do at home is you can just start with 9 00:00:56,80 --> 00:01:03,79 a basic white or lemon cake mix and then you add in place of the water Mon Dieu 10 00:01:04,17 --> 00:01:04,71 and I put 11 00:01:04,72 --> 00:01:10,87 a table's bone of lemon extract and then follow the rest of the recipe on the box 12 00:01:11,12 --> 00:01:15,81 so it's pretty simple and of course you want to have 13 00:01:15,85 --> 00:01:17,73 a bag of Doritos on the side for 14 00:01:17,74 --> 00:01:23,27 a later when you're going to be decorating the cake pops so you basically just 15 00:01:23,28 --> 00:01:29,05 follow that recipe and bake it in the oven at three twenty five in cupcake liners 16 00:01:29,06 --> 00:01:34,21 for about eighteen to twenty two minutes. And then once you have those cupcakes 17 00:01:34,22 --> 00:01:39,27 done that's when they get turned into cake pops So now that you've baked your 18 00:01:39,28 --> 00:01:46,13 Mountain Dew better. Actually you can find the recipe on my website is W W 19 00:01:46,14 --> 00:01:53,03 W dot Amanda cupcake dot blogspot dot com or just google and me and the cupcake 20 00:01:53,04 --> 00:01:58,27 and Mountain Dew take pops and I'm sure you'll be able to find it so that way you 21 00:01:58,28 --> 00:02:02,86 know you've done the recipe right so once you baked it now you've got cupcakes and 22 00:02:02,87 --> 00:02:08,70 the cupcake liners and this big bowl of cupcakes I have here I just took the 23 00:02:08,71 --> 00:02:11,77 cupcakes right out of the cupcake liners and put them in 24 00:02:11,78 --> 00:02:16,37 a bowl and the next thing I'm going to do is crumble them up with my hands and this 25 00:02:16,38 --> 00:02:21,53 is kind of fun. Because you can get as messy as you want be 26 00:02:21,54 --> 00:02:28,43 a big kid play in the cupcakes. And it smells amazing and smells kind of 27 00:02:28,49 --> 00:02:34,40 citrusy and fizzy like Mon Dieu that's what I love about this recipe and the cake 28 00:02:34,41 --> 00:02:39,74 is already really moist so it can almost be sticky enough because what we want to 29 00:02:39,75 --> 00:02:44,29 do. Is add a little bit of frosting probably 30 00:02:44,30 --> 00:02:50,71 a tablespoon or so of frosting. To the cupcake blend 31 00:02:51,78 --> 00:02:56,32 just to make it sticky because what we're going to want to do is roll the isn't 32 00:02:56,33 --> 00:03:03,15 a cake balls. You just get in there and play and you have 33 00:03:03,16 --> 00:03:06,56 fun with the cake and it kind of turns into 34 00:03:06,57 --> 00:03:11,87 a Plato consistency now you'll find that it may turn soggy and that's how you know 35 00:03:11,88 --> 00:03:16,43 you added way too much frosting so I really recommend that you add 36 00:03:16,44 --> 00:03:17,88 a little bit of processing at 37 00:03:17,89 --> 00:03:24,05 a time to avoid that because you can't go back once your cake of to soggy and then 38 00:03:24,06 --> 00:03:30,99 it just it won't roll right. OK so now you can see 39 00:03:31,00 --> 00:03:31,71 it's kind of like 40 00:03:31,72 --> 00:03:38,44 a sticky fun Plato consistency and how to roll it into the perfect ball I think I 41 00:03:38,45 --> 00:03:39,61 roll my into like one and 42 00:03:39,62 --> 00:03:46,57 a half and Skateball. Is you take some in your hand. And you 43 00:03:46,58 --> 00:03:49,78 roll it between the palms of your hands kind of like 44 00:03:49,79 --> 00:03:56,55 a rolling meatball if you've ever done that before. OK. 45 00:03:59,07 --> 00:04:00,39 So now you've got 46 00:04:00,46 --> 00:04:06,47 a kickball. And then looks like that so now that I've taught you how to roll the 47 00:04:06,48 --> 00:04:12,18 cake pops your next move will be putting your cake pops in the refrigerator and 48 00:04:12,19 --> 00:04:17,22 this recipe that I gave you makes around thirty to thirty six K. 49 00:04:17,23 --> 00:04:21,92 Pops and you want to refrigerator for about 50 00:04:21,93 --> 00:04:27,13 a half an hour or until their firm enough to dip into what I call and others call 51 00:04:27,94 --> 00:04:32,45 can be mailed and they come in little bags like this at the craft store in the cake 52 00:04:32,46 --> 00:04:38,76 decorating supply area or you can get them at cake decorating supply stores. And 53 00:04:38,77 --> 00:04:43,18 they melt that's why they call and can e-mail and I'll show you what they look like 54 00:04:43,28 --> 00:04:43,84 they look like 55 00:04:43,85 --> 00:04:49,39 a little dis before they melt so they look like little discs like that. 56 00:04:51,99 --> 00:04:58,02 And what you want to do to melt them just. They're similar to you melt on fifteen 57 00:04:58,03 --> 00:05:03,82 second in command in your microwave until they're smooth and you don't want to over 58 00:05:03,83 --> 00:05:07,84 microwave them because they burn really easily and that's kind of sad when they 59 00:05:07,85 --> 00:05:14,84 burn because they get really really stiff and impossible to work with so now that 60 00:05:14,85 --> 00:05:15,33 I've taught you 61 00:05:15,34 --> 00:05:20,53 a little bit about that now we can move on to our next step and that involves using 62 00:05:20,60 --> 00:05:22,45 a cake pop stick which some call 63 00:05:22,46 --> 00:05:28,60 a sucker stick and you can also get this in the cake decorating supply area or in 64 00:05:28,61 --> 00:05:35,22 any baking store and they use it for cookies for making candy like suckers 65 00:05:35,77 --> 00:05:41,93 but really I only use them for making cake pops. So what I do is I use the candy 66 00:05:41,94 --> 00:05:46,96 melts the melted candy melt as a glue because they dry within 67 00:05:46,97 --> 00:05:53,23 a couple minutes so and they drive very hard and the work is the glue to glue the 68 00:05:53,24 --> 00:05:59,64 cake pop stick inside your cake pop. So I put the cake pops thick in the K. 69 00:05:59,65 --> 00:06:06,63 Pop. And let that set. And that works as the 70 00:06:06,64 --> 00:06:11,54 glue that I was telling you about and notice how the candy melts our light green 71 00:06:11,55 --> 00:06:15,95 color does because we are making money due to read O's cake pops and I used 72 00:06:15,99 --> 00:06:21,44 a candy color Don't use regular food color to color these you want to find 73 00:06:21,45 --> 00:06:28,03 a separate candy color because of gotten oil in it that will actually work better 74 00:06:28,04 --> 00:06:33,11 with your can email if you use regular food coloring is going to stiffen up your 75 00:06:33,12 --> 00:06:39,91 candy and again be impossible to dip your cake pops in. Some people also recommend 76 00:06:39,92 --> 00:06:42,86 freezing your cake pops to get them to be 77 00:06:42,87 --> 00:06:49,53 a good consistency for dipping and I don't recommend that because take swells as it 78 00:06:49,54 --> 00:06:55,25 gets warmer and that will swell inside of the cake pop show after you dip it and 79 00:06:55,26 --> 00:07:00,67 sadly it will crack I learned that the hard way in being self taught and making 80 00:07:00,68 --> 00:07:07,52 cake pops. OK. So now we've got the sticks 81 00:07:07,56 --> 00:07:13,49 in our cake pops. And if you look at the cake pops that I already have done. 82 00:07:15,78 --> 00:07:21,01 They kind of have some fun swirls in them and crumbled on top of them so that's 83 00:07:21,02 --> 00:07:27,00 kind of what I'm going to teach you how to do right now. Is how to do that. So we 84 00:07:27,01 --> 00:07:30,94 have a few different colors of candy melts here we have like a dark green 85 00:07:31,61 --> 00:07:33,27 a light green and 86 00:07:33,28 --> 00:07:39,33 a hopping. And what I'm going to do is very use the green the light green as our 87 00:07:39,34 --> 00:07:46,15 base and I always use nice to stir it if you can use brooms to and I'm going to 88 00:07:46,16 --> 00:07:46,36 put 89 00:07:46,37 --> 00:07:54,62 a little bit. Of the dark green in. And. A 90 00:07:54,63 --> 00:08:01,40 little bit of the pink can be mo in. And then I'm going to 91 00:08:01,44 --> 00:08:04,66 swirl it around using one of my take prop stick so you get like 92 00:08:04,67 --> 00:08:09,90 a rainbow of fact. And that's how it's going to look on the outside of 93 00:08:09,91 --> 00:08:11,73 a prop and I'm actually want to add 94 00:08:11,74 --> 00:08:18,70 a little more. Just to make it more dramatic 95 00:08:18,71 --> 00:08:25,04 you can add as much or as little color as you want or not color at all. OK 96 00:08:25,59 --> 00:08:30,42 so what we do now that are can e-mails have dried is you want to make sure you use 97 00:08:30,43 --> 00:08:37,39 a bowl that's deep enough to dip your cake pop. And you want to pretend like your 98 00:08:37,40 --> 00:08:39,03 cake pop is is diving in 99 00:08:39,04 --> 00:08:44,10 a pool of can email don't push it all the way to the bottom the bottom of the bowl 100 00:08:44,11 --> 00:08:48,99 or the cake pop might fall off the stick you actually just want to go right in and 101 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:53,51 gracefully twirl. The cake. 102 00:08:59,06 --> 00:09:05,94 Like that so you've got us whirl. Like shown here. So that if you 103 00:09:05,98 --> 00:09:07,55 just want to call it 104 00:09:07,56 --> 00:09:13,96 a cake pop with Candy well to the next step which I know you're writing for. Would 105 00:09:13,97 --> 00:09:17,70 be crumpling up to read Oh and I'm putting them on your big pop as 106 00:09:17,71 --> 00:09:24,50 a sprinkle. We have this back. And. We 107 00:09:24,51 --> 00:09:28,45 have the Ziploc bag and that's already got some crumbled to readers and I'm going 108 00:09:28,46 --> 00:09:32,77 to show you how uses that Bug Bag to crumble to read oh so they're small enough to 109 00:09:32,78 --> 00:09:32,98 go on 110 00:09:32,99 --> 00:09:39,86 a cake. I just saved and opened my eyes to look bad. So I 111 00:09:39,98 --> 00:09:46,72 opened it. And just like I'm going to snack on the ants and I 112 00:09:46,73 --> 00:09:50,27 code right now they look delicious I take 113 00:09:50,28 --> 00:09:54,54 a whole bunch in my hand. I put them in the zip lock bag. 114 00:10:00,16 --> 00:10:04,64 So I take a whole bunch and then I put as many as I want to lose 115 00:10:04,65 --> 00:10:07,52 a flock bag full of the air bubbles. 116 00:10:14,57 --> 00:10:19,19 And I have this humongous lovely tool here it's 117 00:10:19,20 --> 00:10:22,35 a rolling pin. And this is kind of 118 00:10:22,36 --> 00:10:28,35 a. Stress relieving exercise he was snatched to read I was talking about. 119 00:10:30,20 --> 00:10:31,42 Some ass and roll. 120 00:10:36,72 --> 00:10:42,61 OK. So now we have sprinkles. 121 00:10:44,38 --> 00:10:51,30 All right so let's try. Coating our cake pop we can e-mail and then sprinkling 122 00:10:51,31 --> 00:10:56,75 it with our creation. Sprinkles and think this is kind of a little bit of 123 00:10:56,76 --> 00:11:01,17 a savory treat which is always just kind of nice to break away from the sweet 124 00:11:01,18 --> 00:11:05,69 a little bit and add a little bit of savory. So I didn't make 125 00:11:05,70 --> 00:11:12,65 a pop. And I get that 126 00:11:12,66 --> 00:11:18,91 beautiful swirl of pink and green in there. And right away 127 00:11:19,77 --> 00:11:25,55 while the Kate topped candy melt is the way. I open up my bag just like I'm going 128 00:11:25,56 --> 00:11:32,13 to snack on some Doritos but instead. I sprinkle like 129 00:11:32,14 --> 00:11:34,96 a pop lightly or have 130 00:11:34,97 --> 00:11:40,60 a way however much truly don't you want. The reader Oh. 131 00:11:42,05 --> 00:11:43,10 You've got a little bit of 132 00:11:43,11 --> 00:11:47,99 a crunch and you've got the soft on the inside and it's going to taste just like 133 00:11:48,00 --> 00:11:53,15 one of your favorite childhood snacks Mountain Dew and to read oh. And in fact I 134 00:11:53,16 --> 00:11:53,81 even got 135 00:11:53,85 --> 00:12:00,23 a taste tester one of my employees. Is going to come out and try one of these 136 00:12:00,75 --> 00:12:07,16 We'll see if we get the star rating from you. So this is Andy he's my 137 00:12:07,17 --> 00:12:12,86 employer at the cupcake mansion and all star baker and he's going to sample the 138 00:12:12,87 --> 00:12:19,72 Mountain Dew cake pops which one would you like. That's all right so bite into it 139 00:12:20,07 --> 00:12:26,93 and taste test the tell me what you think. Bullishness very yummy what 140 00:12:26,94 --> 00:12:33,89 kind of rating would you get five. If it is the most. Awesome 141 00:12:34,84 --> 00:12:39,88 so that is how you make Mountain Dew and to read OK pops you make them for your 142 00:12:39,89 --> 00:12:42,43 kids when they come home from school or for 143 00:12:42,44 --> 00:12:48,76 a snack at school and the recipe again is on my blog it's W W W dot 144 00:12:49,11 --> 00:12:55,66 Amanda cupcake dot blogspot dot com and you can find me if you search under 145 00:12:55,67 --> 00:13:01,84 Amanda cupcake on Facebook so thanks for being with me today and I hope you enjoyed 146 00:13:01,85 --> 00:13:03,67 and have as much fun as I did.